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US-led strike hits government targets in Syria – state media

US-led coalition warplanes have bombed several Syrian army
positions in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor, state media
outlet SANA reports, citing a military source.

The attack took place
shortly after midnight on Thursday. SANA reported that the US-led
coalition aircraft inflicted limited material damage and no
casualties. The airstrikes, which hit near the city of Al-Bukamal, were
reportedly coordinated with anti-government militants.

Earlier,
Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, an ally of the Syrian forces in the fight
with Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) said the coalition jets
targeted two Syrian army outposts, including an energy installation near
the Iraqi border.

The area has seen rapid advances by the US-backed Syrian
Democratic Forces (SDF) pushing against IS militants near Al-Bukamal and
moving towards the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.

Last
week, the SDF announced they took control over a former IS base on the
Euphrates River near the Syrian-Iraqi border, moving closer to territory
controlled by the Syrian government.

Syria has recently been
subjected to massive bombardment campaigns by another US ally, Israel,
which in early May sent 28 fighter jets that fired some 60
air-to-surface missiles into Syrian territory against what Tel-Aviv
claimed were targets belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Israel said that its largest attack in years was a response to Iran’s
launching an attack on the Israeli-controlled part of the occupied Golan
Heights from Syria. The Syrian air defenses retaliated, allegedly
firing some 100 missiles at Israeli warplanes.Pentagon
spokesman Captain Bill Urban said the US military is not aware of any
coalition-led operation against the Syrian government.

"We have no operational reporting of a US-led coalition strike against pro-Syrian regime targets or forces," Urban told Reuters.

However,
Dave Lindorff, the founding editor of the news site ‘This Can’t Be
Happening,’ told RT that the attack seems to follow the same objective
Washington has long pursued, which is to prop the rebels against the
Syrian government.

“We know the US has been supporting and
arming elements of rebels against Assad and that is what they are really
up to in Syria. It would not be surprising if they saw Syrian forces
offering some threat to elements that the US is supporting that they
would continue the policy of attacking Syrians,” Lindorff said.

US-led
forces have been actively engaged in the region in the past few years
and repeatedly hit Syrian army positions here, former US diplomat Jim
Jatras reminded.

“It’s certainly not the first time. We have
many instances where US planes or coalition planes have hit Syrian
government or allied forces in eastern Syria, especially,” Jatras
said. Referring to the US-led strikes in September 2016 that killed 60
Syrian troops near the city of Deir ez-Zor, he said that the attack “almost seemed coordinated with ISIS attacks on Syrian positions.” The coalition then claimed it had no intention of targeting Syrian soldiers, saying it mistook them for ISIS fighters.

Speaking of the chances of a tit-for-tat response from the
Syrian forces, Jatras said that Damascus would not likely fall for
provocation.

“I don’t think there’re any expectations they come
back and target American or coalition forces. It seems that what they
generally have done in the past is to stick to their game plan,” Jatras
said, arguing that instead of giving the US-led forces a pretext for a
larger attack, the Syrian forces would continue to try to clean up the
area in the east from terrorists.

“I’m not sure that’s going to stop them from reaching their objectives in this part of the country,” he said.

The
US administration's policy in the region has been aimed at escalation
and military confrontation, Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the
ANSWER Coalition, said, pointing to the increasingly hawkish mood in the
Trump cabinet, staffed with the likes of National Security Adviser John
Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

“I think the US,
the Pentagon, the Trump administration and the Israeli government have
the same solution which is to intensify military pressure on all of
these entities that they consider to be part of the resistance front
against plans for hegemony in the region,” Becker told RT.

“That
would include Iran, that would include the Syrian government because
it’s survived, Hezbollah, which has been getting stronger, and Lebanon.”